A horseman jumps over a bonfire in the central Spanish village of San Bartolome de Pinares to open the celebrations for the feast of Saint Anthony, patron saint of animals. Photograph: Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP/Getty Images

Xiao Liwu, a 5 1/2-month-old male panda, nurses as his mother, Bai Yun, looks on at the San Diego Zoo, in San Diego. The panda cub now is on display for short periods at the zoo, after passing recent health examinations. Photograph: Gregory Bull/AP

Jonathan Schwartz (L), a salesman at the National Armory gun store, helps Reese Magnant as he looks to buy a National Armory AR-15 Battle Entry Assault Rifle in Pompano Beach, Florida. President Barack Obama today in Washington, DC announced a broad range of gun initiatives that his administration thinks will help curb gun violence. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

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Turkish Kurds chant outside the Diyarbakir airport where the coffins the three female Kurdish activists, who were killed in Paris last week, arrived home. The planned ceremonies have raised tensions in Turkey, with government leaders urging the Kurdish minority for calm. Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images

Christian Lavieille and co-driver Jean-MIchel Polato, both of France, race through the dunes during the 11th stage of the 2013 Dakar Rally from La Rioja to Fiambala, Argentina. Photograph: Victor R. Caivano/AP

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A snow sculpture is seen during the 15th International Sculpture Symposium "Snow Kingdom 2013" in Pustevny, Czech Republic. Regularly the event is attended by more than thirty artists and around ten thousand visitors. Photograph: Radek Mica/AFP/Getty Images

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Right-wingers united: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) chats with former Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman at the beginning of an election campaign stop in the southern Israeli town of Ashdod. Lieberman merged his Yisrael Beitenu party with Netanyahu's Likud to make a right-wing Likud - Yisrael Beitenu block for the up coming general elections. Photograph: Jim Hollander/EPA

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Diana Rakipi, a Burrnesha or sworn virgin, plays a pipe at her apartment in Durres. Burrnesha are Albanian women who took a vow of chastity in return for the right to live as men in traditional, strongly patriarchal communities where women were typically treated as property. Rakipi, 59, one of the few remaining Burrnesha, said she became a sworn virgin at seventeen because she always felt like a boy. Photograph: Arben Celi/Reuters

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Syrian rebels launch a missile in Albab, 30 kilometres from Aleppo. Universities were closed across Syria to mark a day of mourning called after twin blasts tore through an Aleppo campus while students were writing exams, killing at least 87 people. Photograph: Elias Edouard/AFP/Getty ImagesSyrian rebels prepare missiles for launch near the Abu Baker brigade in Albab. Photograph: Elias Edouard/AFP/Getty Images

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An alternative catwalk: Models pose at the runway during the Y. Project By Yohan Serfaty Men Autumn / Winter 2013 show as part of Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France. Photograph: Victor Boyko/Getty Images

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Hindu priests perform during an aarti ceremony on the banks of the Ganges river during the Maha Kumbh Mela. Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images

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Barack Obama signs executive actions to curb gun violence as Vice President Joe Biden and invited guests look on in Washington, DC. President Obama Wednesday signed 23 executive actions to curb gun violence and demand Congress pass an assault weapons ban and other sweeping measures in response to the Newtown shooting. More in our live blog. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

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Malian soldiers await a visit by Malian President Dioncounda Traore at an air base in Bamako, Mali. Photograph: Joe Penney/ReutersMeanwhile in France, soldiers are patrolling the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris as part of the Vigipirate heightened security plan in train stations, airports and public transport following the intervention of French troops in Mali. Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters

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Who can keep up with him? Olympic gold medalist Sir Chris Hoy is joined by local people and cycling fans as he rides around the brand new Cyclopark facility in Gravesend, Kent. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

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Two swans look for edible water plants at Zaanse Schans area in Zaandam, north of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Zaanse Schans is a reserve in the Zaan river region and attracts around one million visitors annually. Photograph: Peter Dejong/AP

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Boris Johnson speaks to the media after the helicopter crash in Vauxhall, London. Two people died and nine casualties have been confirmed with one in a critical condition. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Wondering if it's spring yet? A raccoon dog pokes his nose out of his shelter covered by snow at the small zoo of Servion, Switzerland. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

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If you think it's cold here, spare a thought for the people of the Siberian city of Yakutsk, Russia, where the temperature is about -46C. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

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Kashmiri Muslim girls enjoy a ride set up outside the shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Naqashbandi in Srinagar, India. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims congregated at the shrine on the death anniversary of the saint and offered prayers in a three-day festival. Photograph: Dar Yasin/AP

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Frozen food? Two people enjoy their lunch at a frozen lake at Herrington country park near Sunderland, UK. The cold snap is about to get even colder with temperatures set to plummet, with the temperature in many parts of the country struggling to rise above freezing. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

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A woman rides in a golf cart with her dog in Sun City, Arizona. Sun City was built in 1959 as America's first active retirement community. Today's residents keep their minds and bodies active by socializing at over 120 clubs with activities such as square dancing, ceramics, roller skating and yoga. There are 38,500 residents in the community with an average age of 72.4 years. Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

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A sadhu prays as he sits on the banks of Sangam, the confluence of the holy rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati, during the Maha Kumbh Mela. The Maha Kumbh Mela, believed to be the largest religious gathering on earth, is held every 12 years on the banks of Sangam and attracts over 100 million people. Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images

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A French army Land Rover and pallets of rations are seen on a Royal Air Force C17 cargo aircraft as it prepares to leave for Bamako in Mali from Abidjan in Ivory Coast. The British Royal Air Force is lending logistical support to France as it sends forces to Mali. Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters

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A baby is given nebulizer therapy at Beijing Children's Hospital due to excessive levels of air pollution hit in the capital in the past several days. Photograph: Li Wen/Xinhua Press/Corbis

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An Afghan midwife attends her graduation ceremony in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Over 52, midwives graduated after receiving 2 year of training. Photograph: Rahmat Gul/AP

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Models take to the catwalk for the Autumn Winter collection of Minx By Eva Lutz in Berlin, Germany. Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for IMG

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A mandarin duck at the Zoo in Zurich, Switzerland during a presentation about the mating rituals of ducks. Photograph: Samuel Truempy/EPA

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Female pupils listen to a speech by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at the parliament in Tehran, Iran. Ahmadinejad said that sanctions have slowed down Iran's growth and disrupted foreign trade. Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA

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He's got it all mapped out. A man holds a Gerard de Jode map of Africa from circa 1570 that is valued at £1,200 and will be sold at auction in Edinburgh. Photograph: David Cheskin/PA

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Snow covered containers create a pattern in the port of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Most of Holland is covered by a thick white layer after one night of snow. Photograph: Robin Utrecht/AFP/Getty Images

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Afghan security officials inspect the scene of a suicide bomb attack in Kabul. Six Taliban suicide bombers attacked Afghanistan's National Security Directorate office injuring more than 30 people, most of whom were civilians. Photograph: S Sabawoon/EPA

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The damaged crane that was hit by a helicopter before crashing in Vauxhall, London. Photograph: Ray Tang/Rex Features

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The Henry Moore sculpture, Reclining Woman: Elbow, is moved from outside Leeds Art Gallery before it is shipped to Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam for an exhibition. Photograph: John Giles/PA

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Indian policemen practice their routines during rehearsals for Republic Day on a foggy morning in New Delhi, India. Photograph: Altaf Qadri/AP

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Swan lake: swans make a hole in the frozen lake at the Herrington Country park near Sunderland. A cold snap has gripped the country as a weather system arrives that will leave the UK covered in up to four inches of snow by the weekend. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

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Emergency services at the scene of the helicopter crash in Vauxhall, London. Two people are reported dead with several others injured. Follow the story with the live blog and see a gallery of further pictures. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

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It's a white-out for this man as he walks with his dogs through the snow covered landscape in Duisburg, Germany. Photograph: Frank Augstein/AP

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Supporters listen to a speech by moderate preacher Tahir-ul Qadri as protests continue in Islamabad, Pakistan. Crowds rallied at the largest political demonstration in years calling on the government to quit after the supreme court ordered the arrest of the prime minister. Photograph: Farooq Naeem/AFP/Getty Images

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Camera shy? A pigtail monkey isn't too happy to have his photograph taken in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia. Photograph: ZUMA/Rex Features

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Maria Alyokhina, a member of the female punk band Pussy Riot, is escorted before a court hearing in Berezniki near the Ural mountains, Russia. The court is expected to hear her motion to postpone carrying out the rest of her sentence because of her young child at home. Photograph: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters

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A sad sight as people gather behind a cordon to see the dead body of a 15 metre sperm whale on Paraparaumu beach on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand. Hundreds of people gathered to see the whale which was washed up dead on the beach overnight. Photograph: Mart Melville/AFP/Getty Images

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A bit of a nightmare for the passengers as a Boeing 787 Dreamliner sits on the runway at Takamatsu airport after making an emergency landing. The plane landed at the airport in western Japan after smoke appeared in the plane's cockpit, but all 137 passengers and crew members were evacuated safely. Photograph: Kyodo/Reuters

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A car burning after a helicopter crashed in central London. The helicopter hit a crane in Vauxhall before crashing. Photograph: HotSpot Media

Up to his neck in it: a boy plays in a flooded road in Jakarta. Thousands of residents are being evacuated after floods inundated several areas of the city due to the overflow of the Ciliwung river. Photograph: Enny Nuraheni/Reuters

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Game, set and match! Heather Watson of Great Britain celebrates winning her second round match against Ksenia Pervak of Kazakhstan on day three of the 2013 Australian Open at Melbourne Park. Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images